UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May 6, 2016. The management of Kachkanar Ore Mining & Processing Enterprise/KGOK (a member enterprise of EVRAZ Holding) directed a draft memorandum on social partnership to the company trade union. EVRAZ Holding Ural’s PR Department reports. The paper was drafted in accordance with the recommendations presented by representatives of the Civil Society & Human Rights Council under the President of the Russian Federation, who visited the plant in March. The memorandum confirms the basic principles of how the parties should collaborate on conflicting social/labor

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May 6, 2016. Ural Airlines is opening this year’s summer high season with a new flight to Georgia (Samara-Batumi), the air carrier’s press service reports. The new international flight will be operated every Monday starting from June. This is the third Georgia-bound flight the company has introduced this year so far. Currently, four flights to Batumi are offered by the air carrier, operated from Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Yekaterinburg, and Samara. Last year, Samara-Baku flight was also added to the timetable and will be resumed for this summer as well, starting from June

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May 6, 2016. Pervouralsk New Pipe Plant/PNTZ (a member enterprise of ChTPZ Group) recently launched their new cold-roll Mill KhPT 10-45, a polishing unit, and a flattening machine for making cold-shaped stainless steel pipes. According to the Group’s press service, these upgraded facilities will help increase production output, improve product quality, and cut production costs for goods meant for the nuclear and machine-building industries. The entire project cost nearly 200m RUR to implement. The cold-roll mill’s capacity is estimated at 1.1m meters of pipes of a year,

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May 6, 2016. Chelyabinsk Tube Rolling Plant/ChTPZ Board of Directors met on April 29 to look at last year’s performance, the company press service reports. The BOD members accepted preliminarily the annual accounting report and the annual report for 2015 and suggested passing last year’s dividends and directing profits to the company’s investment, production, and social development. The BOD also suggested that the shareholders vote in favor of the company Charter and internal documentation’s latest amended versions as well as approve of a number of beneficial

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May 6, 2016. Uraltransmash (a member enterprise of Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation) held its traditional Donor’s Day, the company press service reports. ‘Dozens of plant workers arrived at the mobile blood donation station by 9 AM. It came as a surprise that first-time donors or those who haven’t donated blood in a long time cannot contribute this time because the local blood transfusion station is switching to a new automated system this year. So not all those willing to do so could actually donate their blood,’ the press service says. Thirty-nine people, who donated 17.5